Massachusetts Senate Democrats were preparing to advance legislation Tuesday that requires all public schools to implement a “bell-to-bell” ban on student access to personal electronic devices

"Today's action means that Massachusetts is one step closer to making schools cell phone-free," said Senate President Karen Spilka and Senator Jason Lewis, Senate Chair of the Joint Committee on Education in a statement.

Julian Cyr’s bill that would require schools to ban the use of cellphones and other electronic devices from the first bell in the morning to the last bell letting students out in the afternoon. “The cellphone is one of the most distracting devices ever created,